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Gold Coast Public Health Unit physician Dr Vicki Slinko is warning Gold Coasters to avoid swimming, playing, walking or wading through storm water and mud.

Forty-six-year old Gold Coast mum Tanya initially put a niggling pain in her abdomen down to diet.
When it persisted for months, she visited her GP for further investigation and was eventually diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

More than 280 medical interns and newly graduated nurses have started their careers at ÐÇ¿ÕÌåÓý hospitals.

Ninety-one are junior doctors who will embark on the first of five rotations through a variety of hospital areas including general medicine, surgery, emergency medicine and specialties such as psychiatry and more.

The annual intake of 150 newly qualified nurses commenced 24 January and includes 106 Registered Nurses bound for wards, 22 to midwifery services and 27 to mental health units.

Violence and threatening behaviour occur regularly in our Emergency Departments with as many as 10 Code Black activations per day, which are often a result of threatening, intimidating or violent behaviour directed towards staff.

For most of us, the holiday season means tables piled high with a multitude of delicious dishes that go back into the fridge to be consumed as leftovers for the next few meals.

Inpatient mothers can now access Telehealth breastfeeding classes from the comfort of their beds, during their stay in hospital or from home.?

Today, more than $600,000 was awarded to ÐÇ¿ÕÌåÓý clinicians and researchers dedicated to research that will improve the health outcomes of our patients. 

Seven research projects were funded as part of the ÐÇ¿ÕÌåÓý Collaborative Research Grant Scheme and received up to $100,000 towards their research.

It¡¯s being a part of a great team and making sure people know the importance of oral health that has kept Helen Bartlett coming back to her job each day for the past four decades.

BreastScreen Queensland Gold Coast Service is celebrating 30 years of providing quality care for the local community.
The breast screening service has come a long way since its inception when fewer than 4000 women were seen across the first year in the former Gold Coast Hospital X-ray department.

Elder, grandmother and performer Aunty Delmae Barton and her son William Barton received their second COVID-19 vaccine at Broadbeach Vaccination Centre recently.
She shared her story.